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Main-topsail

noun
1.
A topsail set on the mainmast.





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"Main-topsail" Quotes from Famous Books



... water during the night; and, before dawn, fifty-five ragamuffins of all castes, colors, and countries, were shipped as crew. By "six bells," with a coasting flag at our peak, we were two miles at sea with our main-topsail aback, receiving six kegs of specie and several chests ...
— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer
... we got near soundings, when it came on to blow very heavy from the southward and westward. The ship was running under a close-reefed main-topsail and foresail, with a tremendous sea on. Just as night set in, one Harry, a Prussian, came on deck from his supper to relieve the wheel, and, fetching a lurch as he went aft, he brought up against the launch, and thence down against our grass fore-sheet, which had ...
— Ned Myers • James Fenimore Cooper
... of this rope, men," cried Mr. Leach, placing the end of the main-topsail halyards in the hands of half-a-dozen athletic steerage passengers, who had all the inclination in the world to be doing, though uncertain where to lay their hands; "lay hold, and ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper


Words linked to "Main-topsail" :   sheet, canvas, sail, canvass


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